How to Rename File While Downloading with Wget in Linux

Wget utility is a popular and feature-rich command-line based file downloader for Unix-like operating systems and Windows OS. It supports non-interactive downloading of files over protocols such as HTTP, HTTPS, and FTP.

It’s designed to work reliably with slow or unstable network connections. Importantly, in case of network disruptions, it enables you to continue getting a partially-downloaded file by running a particular command again.

In this short article, we will explain how to rename a file while downloading with wget command on the Linux terminal.

By default, wget downloads a file and saves it with the original name in the URL – in the current directory. What if the original file name is relatively long as the one shown in the screen shot below.

Taking the example above, to rename the downloaded file with wget command to something else, you can use the -O or --output-document flag with the -c or --continue options helps to continue getting a partially-downloaded file as we explained at the start.

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I am using wget -i filename.txt to download all the images listed in text file, However there is one problem, In the end of images URL the pattern is something like this 1-foto-000.jpg?20180711125016 and the name of the saved file is 1-foto-000.jpg?20180711125016